Chapter 479

"Half-Divine Beast Species!? I've never heard of that either! Can I touch it a little!!"

"Yeah, go ahead- wait, you're already touching it."

The moment she heard the race name, Leela breathed heavily and charged at the white bear, starting to observe it by touching its body all over.

The white bear let out a "Guooon?" in a somewhat troubled voice, as if asking what to do, so Tatsuro put his hands together and asked it to bear with it for a bit.

In the meantime, Tatsuro checked the white bear's skills.

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Level: 1

Skills: [Divine Beast Transformation], [Six Crest Liberation], [Iridescent Crystal Creation]

[Crystal Precision Operation], [Super Olfaction Lv.1], [Martial Arts Lv.1]

[Scratch Lv.1], [Claw Attack Lv.1], [Claw Rapid Fire Lv.1]

[Super Charge Lv.1], [Roaring Sound Wave Lv.1], [Air Walk Lv.1]

[Gliding Flight Lv.1], [Half-Divine's Aura Lv.1]

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"Gliding? Can a bear fly?"

"Huh? That white bear can fly? ...How?"

"Beats me?"

It did not have membranes on its sides like a flying squirrel, nor wings like a bird.

It looked like a pure land animal with no connection to the sky at all, so Tatsuro could only tilt his head.

"Well, for now, I'd like to see it in battle. Leela, is that about enough?"

"Yes, I'll examine it more later."

"Guooooon..."

With an "Ehh..." expression, it drooped its head but then came over to them on two legs with a potepote sound, and hugged Tatsuro tightly against its belly.

"It's quite the spoiled one, huh."

"It was just born, and it seems pretty smart for a magical beast. Maybe it's at the age where it wants to be spoiled."

"Nice-"

As he buried the back of his head in the fluffy belly and was being healed, Ai looked at it enviously, so Tatsuro pulled her close and let her bury herself in his chest.

Ai had wanted the other way, but well, it was fine, and she stayed clung to Tatsuro.

"Oops, that's not what I meant. Sota! Bring some suitable magical beast from the sea-!"

"Kyuiiiirorororouuuu-"

While being healed in the sandwich between the white bear and Ai, Tatsuro came back to his senses and gave instructions to Sota.

Then Sota dove into the sea, and after about two to three minutes, returned with a strange crustacean magical beast wrapped around the tip of its tail, shaped like an apple with crab legs attached.

"Kyiiirorouuuu-"

It then tossed it onto the sandy beach a little away from Tatsuro and the others, and positioned itself behind to block it from escaping to the sea.

"The opponent has high durability and is level 37. It's not that strong around here for a magical beast, but normally a level 1 magical beast wouldn't stand a chance... Can you do it?"

"Guon"

Nodding as if it was obvious, the white bear removed the large foreleg it had been hugging Tatsuro with, and potepote walked in front of everyone facing the magical beast.

Just when it seemed like it would go toward the magical beast, the white bear suddenly stopped with both arms extended forward in a ready pose.

Then, an iridescent beautifully glowing liquid seeped out from its claws, quickly covering them.

"Guooooooon!!"

"----!?"

The crustacean magical beast that was wandering around due to the sudden roar also turned its attention to the white bear-but in that instant, pointed iridescent crystals shaped like claws flew toward it one after another like a Gatling gun.

"It looks like a mixed skill of Claw Rapid Fire and Iridescent Crystal Creation."

"The barrage speed is increasing rapidly."

"Since it's called Half-Divine Beast Species, its skill level growth seems as fast as superior dragons."

Even while Tatsuro was analyzing, the crustacean magical beast could not dodge, and the claw-shaped iridescent crystals hit its body with a gagagaga sound like metal clashing, echoing around.

However, as time passed, the power of the claw-shaped crystal barrage increased, eventually cracking the exoskeleton, widening the cracks, and starting to damage the flesh covered by the exoskeleton.

In a panic, it rotated its apple-shaped body and began sinking into the sandy beach.

It seemed to be trying to escape underground.

"Guooooooon!!"

But there the white bear roared again, activating Divine Beast Transformation to instantly dye its entire fur platinum.

Furthermore, with its body enlarged to about four meters due to the effect, it used Super Charge.

It slammed into the crustacean magical beast trying to burrow into the ground with tremendous force while kicking up sand. A sound like a truck hitting something large, "Dogon!", resounded.

Normally, the side hit by the charge would be sent flying, but the large iridescent crystal counter-horn protruding from the white bear's (now platinum bear's) head pierced it, stopping it in place.

"Guuon!"

Shouting that, the white bear jumped back to create distance from the close range, and the horn that was stuck stretched like candy, remaining extended from its head.

Furthermore, iridescent crystals welled up from the white bear's entire body, covering and turning into armor.

"Being able to freely decide the shape and softness like that is convenient."

The crustacean magical beast tried to escape in the gap when the white bear distanced itself, but because of the crystal horn embedded in its body, it could not increase the distance any further, as if chained.

"Wow... Spikes came out from the arms of the crystal armor. That looks painful if it stabs."

"It feels like it wouldn't end with just pain..."

The part covering the forearms of the full-body iridescent crystal armor transformed into a vicious shape, like a boxer's glove densely covered with thorns.

"Oh, Six Crest Liberation is coming."

"What kind of skill is that?"

"It seems to temporarily allow the use of six attributes-for this white bear, light, fire, lightning, ice, wind, and life attributes."

The six-petal crest drawn in golden fur on its chest shone brilliantly, and from there, the magical power of the six attributes Tatsuro mentioned earlier filled its body.

Among that magical power, it channeled fire into the full-body armor, changing the iridescent crystal armor to a burning heat color.

The horn that had been stretching like candy from its head naturally began to heat up, starting to burn the inside of the crustacean magical beast.

"Guooooooon-!!"

"----"

Furthermore, after gathering the lightning attribute at its mouth, Roaring Sound Wave.

A powerful shockwave wrapped in lightning flew from the white bear's mouth, and the crustacean magical beast began to convulse.

Furthermore, ten seconds before the effect of Divine Beast Transformation wore off. It delivered the final blow.

Pulling the horn extended from its head, it yanked the convulsing crustacean magical beast toward itself all at once, then stood up on its two hind legs and took a boxing stance with the thorn-covered crystal gloves.

"Guooooooon!!"

Then, toward the crustacean magical beast flying toward it, it beautifully unleashed left and right punches in succession as if it were a sandbag.

Since it was connected to the white bear by a string-like thing, the crustacean magical beast that could not get away was pummeled all over its body, stabbed, gouged, and turned into a wreck.

The magical beast that had been punched for about ten seconds was finally dropped to the ground like garbage by the white bear after it severed the horn, and released.

However, it still had not stopped breathing, twitching while dripping purple bodily fluid from its entire body.

"----"

"Guooon!"

The white bear, having returned to its original 2.5 meter size white-furred bear after the Divine Beast Transformation effect ended, used Air Walk for a double jump.

At the same time, since the fire magical power of Six Crest Liberation had run out, the burning heat-colored crystal began to return to its original color.

But this time, it changed to crystals imbued with emerald-like wind magical power, and furthermore spread crystal wings on its back totaling about ten meters on both sides.

Using the wind magical power from Six Crest Liberation itself to create an updraft, it rode it and rose even higher with Gliding Flight.

"Guooooon!"

It put away the wings, stopped the updraft, and began a natural free fall under gravity.

The white bear pointed its head downward, locking onto the crustacean magical beast.

Like a dropkick, it brought its two forelegs tightly together, then used its hind legs with Air Walk that had leveled up to 2 from the previous time as a foothold for Super Charge.

There, it used the remaining wind magical power to further enhance propulsion.

It enveloped itself in a sparkling blue crystal armor by mixing light and ice magical power, making it even harder and sturdier.

The white bear's two forelegs, falling at meteoric speed, accurately struck the crustacean magical beast.

Blowing away the surrounding sand and creating a huge crater, it completely erased all traces that the crustacean magical beast had existed.

"Good work."

Tatsuro cleared away all the kicked-up sand with wind magic, restoring visibility as he approached the white bear.

"Guuo~"

The white bear, completely changed from its earlier imposing figure, rubbed its head against Tatsuro affectionately.

Ishtar, who had been watching the entire sequence, had a smile on her lips as if she had seen something interesting.

"Level 1 and not just defeating that magical beast, but overwhelming it. It's like a dragon in the shape of a bear."

"Moreover, one of the superior ones. Its level probably went up from that and it got even stronger, and I'm truly glad such a magical beast wasn't born in the wild until now."

"Yeah. If one at level 700 or 800 appeared, only Mother could handle it."

"Clear Elves alone wouldn't be able to win... In fact, Tatsuro-kun is the one who has such a magical beast as a subordinate."

"Tatsuro and that bear seem to have taken a liking to each other."

When Tatsuro said "You were amazing-" and ruffled its head with kai-guri kai-guri, the white bear happily made pispis nose sounds.

Leela, who was given such a look, shrugged her shoulders, and the two decided to stop thinking deeply about it, figuring it was inevitable.